Author Archives: Roger

spilogale putorius Monday, December 27, 1999 — 11:20 am Stuttgart, Arkansas — Stuttgart Municipal Airport I drove to the Suttgart Airport on Monday to look (successfully) for Smith’s Longspur and Sprague’s Pipit, both of which had been reported from there all … Continue reading →

anthus (In Greek legend, Anthus, a youth killed by his father’s horses, was changed into a bird) spragueii (given by John James Audubon in honor of Isaac Sprague, artist and botanical illustrator, who accompanied Audubon on his Missouri River expedition … Continue reading →

calcarius (spur) pictus (painted) Monday, December 27, 1999 — 9:45 am Stuttgart, Arkansas — Stuttgart Municipal Airport I first learned that Smith’s Longspurs could be seen at the Stuttgart Airport from A Birder’s Guide to Arkansas. I spent a day … Continue reading →

gavia (sea smew) pacifica (of the Pacific) Monday, September 20, 1999 — 6:45 pm Crystal Lake, Illinois — Vulcan Lake — Dartmoor Road This one was easy. I got an E-mail from IBET at work this afternoon reporting a Pacific … Continue reading →

limenitis archippus Friday, August 6, 1999 — 9:45 am Moraine Hills State Park, Illinois I was walking the Leatherleaf Bog trail through an area of bushes and brush not far beyond the two marshes near the trailhead. The Viceroy flashed past … Continue reading →